EAN: 9783319837321

GOVERNANCE SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT GREAT POW...

This book offers an original and theoretically rich examination into the dynamics of alliances
that great powers and weak states form to defeat threats  such as rebellion or insurgency 
within the smaller state's borders. The author examines contemporary examples of such internal
threat alliances  including Russia's collaboration with Syria's Assad regime to defeat
anti-government rebels and U.S. cooperation with Afghanistan's ruling political elite to combat
the Taliban. In each case  the weaker state's leadership wanted to remain in power while the
great power sought to safeguard its interests linked to the regime's stability. The book adds
to International Relations (IR) theory by presenting a distinct conceptual framework that
explains why internal threat alliances form  why some are more cohesive than others  and why
some are effective while others are not. It thus promises to be of interest to IR scholars and
students working in the areas of security studies  alliance dynamics  political violence  and
civil war  but also to policy-makers grappling with how to salvage interests  such as access to
natural resources or regional stability  imperiled by violence in weak states.

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